1. Germany.
A short newsreel entitled ‘The Reichsmarschall’s Division’.
– Soldiers from the division march through the gates of the barracks in the Reinickedorf district of Berlin.
– The gate bears the inscription: ‘General Hermann Göring’s Division’.
– Soldiers and officers.
– A view of the barracks and officers’ quarters.
– A close-up of an armband bearing the division’s name.
– Hermann Göring inspects the division, walking past the ranks of soldiers.
– Soldiers standing by self-propelled guns and armoured vehicles.
– Artillerymen demonstrate the operation of an anti-tank gun.
– Boarding the vehicles.
– Division manoeuvres at the training ground.
– Soldiers board half-track vehicles equipped with light anti-aircraft guns.
– Motorcyclists and self-propelled guns travel along the road.
– Soldiers cross the river in a boat.
– They fire machine guns, mortars and flamethrowers.
– Tanks are firing.
– Explosions in the countryside.
– A tank crewman in a tank.
– A tank crewman addresses German youths on screen, urging them to enlist in their division.
2. General Government, Breslau.
The funeral in his homeland of Hans Adolf von Moltke, a prominent figure in foreign policy and German Ambassador to Madrid.
– The coffin, draped with a flag bearing the swastika.
– A wreath from the Spanish Ambassador and from Caudillo Franco.
– German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the funeral; in the background, the Gauleiter of Lower Silesia, Karl Hanke.
– Laying of a wreath on behalf of the Führer.
3. Germany.
Berlin.
A memorial service for one of the leading figures in the German sports movement, the first Reich Sports Führer Hans von Tschammer und Osten (25 March 1943), in the Mosaic Hall of the Reich Chancellery.
– Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech.
– A wreath is laid on behalf of the Ministry of Propaganda.
– The coffin with wreaths, including one from the Finnish Olympic Committee, representatives from Hungary and Denmark, and one from Göring.
– In the hall, amongst the public, are Reichsleiter Wilhelm Frick and Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg.
– A funeral procession through the streets of Berlin.
– The coffin on a gun carriage at the Brandenburg Gate.
4. France.
The arrival of the German submarine U-177 at its home port after completing a combat mission.
– Sailors on the shore watch the approaching submarine.
– The submarine’s commander, recipient of the Knight’s Cross, Lieutenant Commander Gerhard Bilig.
– Fellow submariners greet their comrades-in-arms.
– Loading torpedoes, ammunition and provisions onto the submarine; refuelling.
– A submarine on a new patrol in the Atlantic.
– An observer.
– A newsreader reporting on the successes of the German submarine fleet.
5. Germany.
Adolf Hitler’s residence.
– The Führer receives Italian General Italo Gariboldi, commander of the Italian forces on the Eastern Front.
– The General is presented with a German decoration – the Knight’s Cross.
6. The Eastern Front.
The Lake Ladoga area.
– German soldiers travelling on a cart.
– In the forest.
– German Lieutenant-General Johann Zinnhuber, commander of the 28th Jäger Division, inspects an artillery position.
– Lieutenant-General Johann Zinnhuber talks to soldiers and officers.
– Wire entanglements being erected on the banks of the Neva.
– The shelling of Soviet positions begins.
– A firefight between Soviet artillery and German tanks.
– Soldiers run for cover.
– A fire is being extinguished in a German dugout.
– Soviet attempts to break through the German line between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen are repelled.
– German artillery, a machine gun and light guns are firing.
– Soldiers are being awarded the Iron Cross.
– Grenadiers turn their camouflage jackets inside out, from the light side to the dark side.
– Tanks and infantry advance to the front-line positions.
– German infantrymen follow a tank.
– A tank fires on a Soviet bunker.
– The Germans are on the attack.
– A wounded man is being carried away.
– A tank and infantrymen advance.
– A destroyed Soviet bunker, the bodies of Soviet soldiers, and destroyed military equipment.
– A Soviet soldier is spotted in cover.
– Prisoners of war.
– A moment of calm.
– German soldiers are eating and smoking.
– The infantry continue their advance.
– A firefight in the woods.
– A Soviet soldier surrenders.
– A German fires a machine gun from cover.
– Soldiers with submachine guns.
– German artillery shells Soviet positions.
– A Soviet air raid on a German battery; bombs exploding.
– German anti-aircraft gunners fire at Soviet aircraft.
– A burning Soviet aircraft crashes to the ground.
– German aircraft at the airfield. ‘Junkers’ take to the air.
– A scene from an aerial battle.
– German artillery fires on Soviet positions.
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